And park theyve been asked over and over over and over again to make hard decisions there were so many times it would have been easier politically and administrationly to get out but they stuck with us and helped us get over the block clapping in our neighborhood we know there are amazing talented and talented capable creative people working in our city government. Know those people are not obstacles or add surveys theyre our allies and friends. In this projectile it started were talking about 2003 but in 1999, gary that was the city architect that came into planning rec and park sat in the table at the looked at the set of plans and said we can make this playground bigger and we did clapping i know lewis is the head librarian i had the pleasant opportunity to get to know him over the 11 years if you like the library and the longer hours and the quality of stiff thats outline lewis and people that have made the library greatest and hes under the hammer and stood but us were enormously
We wouldnt have done this without the support of julie i want to call out julie clapping theres a couple of other people i want to thank minimizing i didnt for the honk honk theyve provided food in the ecology so thank you to them. Again, thank you all for your support clapping all right. Julie are you ready. I am so ready. Its been a delight to work with julia shes kind of the distinction of pioneers and leadership and thank you julia for your committee and so without further ado, jill will i from our neighborhood clapping. so im going to bring it on home you have to get through me. A few housekeeping things so were going to let you into the library the friends have tshirts to commemorate the day and the tack could truck and mel is going to be here and the childrens activities so you guys happening we finally got our plaza so enjoy the day. So to me the fight the structural to build this library has been the struggle to decide what kind of neighborhood we want to be. In our neighborho
In the United States north beach so give yours a hand. San francisco is so lucky we have 228 Branch Libraries a lot of the libraries around the country are closing their wifi capable and were going to expand the hours starting today clapping thank you this is all done thanks to you the public and the department of public works and the rec and Park Department and friends of the library the architects and construction crew and most importantly the great work of the San Francisco Library Staff thank you very much and enjoy mothers day weekend clapping. thank you, commissioner i think it bears repeating the new Library Hours as of this weekend all neighborhood libraries are going to be opened 36 hours more and many of the libraries opened 7 days a wing at that time, in the donation some cities are closing down libraries were the beneficiaries of your support of san franciscans that love libraries. Give yours a hand. Were almost there its about children when you see the childrens rooms youl
Clapping third its a story of partnership and this is the partnership between our various public agencies and the Arts Commission and sarah from our Arts Commission they have to fight. Its a story of the department of public works and all the city agencies working together but partnership between government and our nonprofit partners like the friends of the Public Library and the friends of joe deimagine plagued we need partners so thank you partners. And lastly its a story of parks. Were going to have a beautiful particularly renovated joe deimagine plagued that will broung in were investing 5 and a half Million Dollars your project management i want to give her a shout out and as great and as iconic joe deplagiarizing imagine playground when were done with this this is going to be the spot in the entire city this is how cities are supposed be here excited to partner with all of you thank you very much clapping. nicely done phil i know in the audience trying to hide is our former depu
And i could go there are so symmany city starves calling names there so many people that contributed to this project im hoping to go into detail about the rec and park but i hope they know how much we appreciate their efforts. In our neighborhood we have neighborhood organizations that come together not for power but for service we have neighborhood organizations that serve not only their constituents but everyone in the neighborhood even people they dont know we have neighborhood organizations that serve the people in the neighborhood not only today but years from now. People we may never meet the people after us this project required the cooperation getting the land and making this happen the friends of joe demay this and the friends of the Community Center and the russian hill and the p t o or every Single School in the area theyve called people to meetings and written letters and lobbied for supervisor chiu and lobbied the mayor those people and organizations have used the clot and